Changes and Challenges today are Affecting Every Area of our Lives:
â WORK: 77% of all professionals suffering burnout with significant impact to quality of their work and their lives.
â COUPLES: Study finds a 34% rise in divorce filings in summer 2020 compared with summer 2019.
â PARENTS: 70% of parents current family responsibilities are a significant source of stress in their lives.
â ORGANIZATIONS: Workplace stress is estimated to cost business ~ $500 billion/year.
Conflict is everywhere, and can be good when handled well, because:
âIf two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.â ~ Winston Churchill or William Wrigley, Jr. or Henry Ford orâ¦
Conflict helps us to learn more about each other and enrich our relationships.
By Terry and Kim Kovel
King Features Syndicate
The New Year is celebrated in many ways, but in the United States, there are always midnight celebrations with pictures of an old man representing the past and a baby, the new year. The other popular symbol is a clock of almost any style with the hands at midnight.
The early Greek idea of Baby New Year was a baby paraded around in a basket to welcome the new year. Then it became pictures of the Baby Jesus or a Baby New Year. But pictures were created for publications, and each year from 1907 to 1943, Joseph Leyendecker drew a different, humorous illustration of a Baby New Year for the Saturday Evening Post that have influenced all that followed. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was searching for the missing Baby New Year in a cartoon in the 1970s. Modern celebrations give gifts to the first newborn baby of the year at hospitals. We think the 19th-century baby buggy would be a nice gift for this year s first born.
Babies popular theme around New Year s Eve
Terry Kovel
The New Year is celebrated in many ways, but in the United States, there are always midnight celebrations with pictures of an old man representing the past and a baby, the new year. The other popular symbol is a clock of almost any style with the hands at midnight.
The early Greek idea of Baby New Year was a baby paraded around in a basket to welcome the new year. Then it became pictures of the Baby Jesus or a Baby New Year. But pictures were created for publications, and each year from 1907 to 1943, Joseph Leyendecker drew a different, humorous illustration of a Baby New Year for the Saturday Evening Post that have influenced all that followed.
Cubs played by wire to aid war bond sales By JohnW53 on Dec 19, 2020, 3:10am CST +
Over the years, Major League baseball teams have raised significant amounts of money for charities and war relief and not always by playing exhibition games.
In 1919, the Cubs took part in a one-of-a-kind effort to raise funds with which to buy Liberty Bonds, issued by the U.S. government to help pay debts that had piled up during World War I.
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The government sold $17 billion of bonds in a series of 5 drives.
The bonds for the first drive, offered with an interest rate of 3.5 percent at maturity, were issued on April 24, 1917. The second drive began in October (4 percent), then 2 more in 1918, one in April (4.15 percent) and another in September (4.25 percent).